{"id":2929,"date":"2012-10-16T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/blogging-its-a-family-affair-2\/"},"modified":"2023-09-04T21:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:18:40","slug":"blogging-its-a-family-affair-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/blogging-its-a-family-affair-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging: It’s a Family Affair!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both of my parents were entrepreneurs.<\/strong> My husband’s dad owned his own plumbing business. \u00a0We have an IT consulting company together.\u00a0It stands to reason that the two of us would produce Mr. Social.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I have ever seen a kid more driven, and I was pretty intense as a kid. <\/strong>He has that Caribbean American work ethic – and he got it honest.<\/p>\n

\"Mr.<\/p>\n

\"Mr.<\/p>\n

Mr. Social working at 2:30 am \u00a0on his questions and doing research before his interview with Chef Dana.<\/em><\/p>\n

When I was a kid, I remember my mom taking me to Wal-Mart and various craft and fabric stores to get my “supplies” for all of the things I would make and sell.<\/strong> She never thought my ideas were silly, and she never wrote them off as just a kid coming up with crazy ideas. \u00a0Her support of my projects made me who I am today.<\/p>\n

Mr. Social loves cars.<\/strong> I mean he LOVES them. \u00a0I don’t think I have seen a kid so passionate about anything before. \u00a0For the past year, he was always making signs for his “work” in his spare time, and calling all of us to the table for his business meetings. \u00a0He would set the table with cereal bowls and place cards with each of our names on them. \u00a0Not sure what we were meeting about, but he had an agenda, and when his older brother was goofing off – he was thrown out of the meeting immediately.<\/p>\n

He watches me work on my blog all the time, and eventually he decided that he was going to start his own blog. <\/strong> He started by asking me a lot of questions about mine… how do I get the pictures up there, would he need a computer, would he need a camera, do kids have blogs, stuff like that. \u00a0Then one day he asked the question. \u00a0“Mommy, can you make me a blog?”<\/p>\n

Like I don’t have enough to do. <\/strong> Then I thought about it. \u00a0My mom ran her own business, fed us, clothed us, and still managed to find time to get out to the store on a regular basis to help me do my own thing. \u00a0She bought me a drafting table so that I could spread out all my plans, she let me use her old pots to boil dye for my tie die shirt business, and took my Easter baskets to work with her to sell. \u00a0My dad has one of my paintings that I sold to him hanging up in his home right now. \u00a0I had no excuse not to help him.<\/p>\n

I said, “sure,” but I really meant, “we’ll see.” <\/strong> We’ve been taking Mr. Social to car shows since he could stand up, the most recent was in NYC this year<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well after that, he was on a mission.<\/strong> He was making business cards, shopping lists, and big plans… I hadn’t made any. \u00a0Then I decided that I had enough on my plate and handed that to the Hubby. \u00a0He took it on, and next thing I knew, Mr. Social had an interview scheduled with Chef Dana, celebrity chef and author, who was making a life sized Fiat at the Delaware Auto Show.<\/p>\n

Just like when I was growing up, this was going to be a family affair.<\/strong> My itty bitty fashionista jumped into action, and took him to H&M to get the right outfit to be on camera. \u00a0My oldest began to practice his camera work. \u00a0The whole family was going to have to work together to get this done.<\/p>\n

\"Styled<\/em><\/p>\n

Once we got there, he was really excited, and REALLY ready to work. His “crew” was ready too…<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Boy” filming Mr. Social. He did an amazing job.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Dave<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

He wasn’t even that nervous! Check out Chef Dana at DessertsbyDana.com<\/a>…<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

<\/object> <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

He did it! Watch this second grader ask the tough questions…<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Once he finished filming, he KEPT asking about his website, and his facebook page, and how people would be able to follow him on Twitter, so figuring that he was serious – and he had put in the work – we went ahead and created his site.<\/strong> Will he be able to log in and upload stuff? No. \u00a0Does he manage his own Twitter and Facebook accounts? Absolutely not. \u00a0Everybody has their job when it comes to his blog. \u00a0He creates the content – he writes his own questions, and comes up with people he wants to talk to and places he wants to go so that he can share it on his blog. \u00a0The hubby manages his schedule, \u00a0Baby Girl picks out his clothes, and The Boy does the photography and videography.<\/p>\n

I’ll give it to him. \u00a0He is working very hard on this project. <\/strong> He has proven to me that he is serious, so I support him fully. \u00a0I told my mom about his show, and how hard he was working, and how everybody was working on it with him. \u00a0She didn’t seem surprised at all. \u00a0She was happy – but not at all surprised. \u00a0I wasn’t taught to do things any other way.<\/p>\n

\"End<\/em><\/p>\n

End of a long day – taking a break in the bed of a Dodge Ram at the Delaware Auto Show.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Follow on Twitter @davescarshow <\/a>| “Like” on Facebook<\/a> to see more photos from the event| Subscribe on YouTube<\/a> | Website<\/a> launches on October 22 – find a full recap of the Delaware Auto Show on the 22nd<\/strong><\/p>\n


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